Baboons for Lunch de James Michael Dorsey

Baboons for Lunch

James Michael Dorsey

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 apr 2018 – vârsta de la 14 ani

BABOONS FOR LUNCH And Other Sordid Adventures is a rollicking collection of travel stories by an explorer who has spent two decades visiting the most remote tribal societies on earth. It is adventure travel, storytelling, literature, and humor, from the world's most remote corners as an intrepid city dweller encounters ancient peoples for the first time.

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James Michael Dorsey is an award-winning author and explorer who has traveled in 48 countries to visit remote cultures before they vanish. He has written for LONELY PLANET, BBC TRAVEL, BBC WILDLIFE, GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS, Chicken SOUP FOR THE SOUL, and is a frequent contributor to UNITED AIRLINES¿ HEMISPHERE and PERCEPTIVE TRAVEL. He has also written for COLLIERS, The CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WEND, NATURAL HISTORY, and GONOMAD. He writes for numerous African magazines, and is a travel consultant to BROWN&HUDSON of London, and correspondent for CAMERAPIX INTERNATIONAL of Nairobi. He is the author of VANISHING TALES FROM ANCIENT TRAILS, and his stories have appeared in 18 anthologies, including THE BEST TRAVEL WRITING volumes 10 and 11, plus the 2016 Lonely Planet Travel Anthology. He has won the grand prize for best travel writing from the Solas Awards, and other awards from TRANSITIONS ABROAD and NOWHERE MAGAZINE. He is a fellow of the Explorers Club and former director of the Adventurers Club.

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Author Preface Introduction Chapter One, Humorous Travels Monks and Monkey Poop on the Mountain Me and Tea in Burma Commies, Crickets, and Kitties in China Burrowing Beneath Budapest Mekong Moonshine Chapter Two, Discoveries and Revelations Jordan¿s Bull From the Ashes Remembrance My Maasai Night My Mexican Bus Chapter Three, Adrenalin Common Ground in the Kasbah To Live or Die in the Danakil Conversations with a Caveman Chapter Four, Emotional Journeys Remembrance A Kiss for the Condemned A Stone for Henry Leman Homecoming Limping Home from Kashgar Chapter Five, Personal Stories Photo Ops with Buddha Breaking Bread in Kanas Kingpin Of Email and Kings The Sahara Dialogues Walking with Markus Chapter Six, Personal Essays Listening to the Silence Thoughts of a World Traveler Travels with Layla